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DeFazio: Get FDA off people’s backs
■ HEALTH: t‘ cl ike
alternative treatments
more accessible
By Marcetene Edwards
Responding to what lie (.alls
ex< ifSMvr limits on the availabil
ity of altemativn medical tmat
mcnts Rep Peter DeFiiJUO
joined other I ton sc and Senate
nmmlrors last week to introduce
a bill designed to give people
more options in health care
The Access to Medical
Treatment Act allows individu
als to get non harmful alterna
tive health treatments without
the treatments' going through
the Food and Drug
Administration's approval
process
But the Food and Drug
Administration has safely con
cerns with legislation sui h as
this
Responding to a similar hill
be.! year. Maty K Ponder gust
told the Senate Committee on
labor and Human Resources
that these bills "could needless
ly expose patients to dangerous
products "
There will Ive no requirement
to study drugs < arefullv in
humans prior to use in treat
ment. she said
All drugs that currently go
through the FDA must meet
strut standards Indore they ire
approved New drug applied
turns that are presented to the
FDA must contain substantial
si ii-utifh evidence of both the
safety and effectiveness of the
drug for its intended uses, and
the drug must be tested on am
mals for toxicity That informa
tion will la* used in developing a
plan for testing on humans,
iii cording to the FDA
After extensive studies of
reproductive offer t%. effects on
the fetus and long-term use. the
tost results are submitted to the
FDA FDA medical officers,
chemist*, statistic ians and phar
macologists review the applica
tion to determine if the
sponsor's data in fat t show that
the drug is safe and effective,
ai cording to the FDA
But DeFazio says this process
of approving drugs through the
FDA is costly and time consum
ing Many alternative treatments
using natural materials i annul
he patented, but unless patent
ed, their originators cannot
afford to meet the FDA's
requirement* for new drugs,
ai (ording to a press release from
I JeFiiiao’i offii e
"As we confront escalating
medu.il costs and struggle to
protect the Medicare program,
alternative medicine offers
affordable and often effei live
treatments for chronic illnesses
that require long-term care."
DeFazio said
DeFazio said lie Imcaine
involved in the issue Iwcuuse it
is a personal interest of his Over
the years he has used the ser
vices of acupuncturists and
naturopaths He is also respond
ing to the public's demand to
make non-narmful alternative
and potentially life-saving treat
ments more widely available to
consumers, said Jacquelyn
Davis, a spokeswoman for
DcFu/io
Dr Daniel Hard), a naturopath
in fcugenc*. said the a< ( is a wry
good thing (or health care.
}mx a use it gives the doctors
more ( hoic es Hardt dismisses
many of the safety concerns
held by the FDA. saving that you
have to give credit to the < on
sumers ability to make healthy
det i Stons
"Consumers lire the ultimate
t he< k on the market," he said
Hardt points to a case in
Washington where he says a
doctor was investigated by the
federal government for using B
vitamins from Germany that had
not been approved The Am ess
to Medic al Treatment Ac t would
improve this situation, he said.
The bill requires full disc io
-■'.ill', to patients lit the i (intents
and possible side effec ts of treat
ments and mandates that
patients be notified if the feder
al government has not vet
proved the drug to he safe or
effec tive It also specifies that
only state-licensed health c are
providers working within the
scope of their practice may
administer the treatments. The
bill stric tly regulates how claims
i an tie made on treatment effect ■
tiveness, and prohibits all adver
tising and lalieling claims when
a treatment's promotion is
linked to a person.li financial
inrentiv c*
"I want to gel the thousand
pound gorilla known as the
IDA off of the hacks of people
who want ac c ess to beneficial
alternative health treatments
w ithout compromising the pub
lic's safety.” UuFa/.io said.
"This legislation will accom
plish that goal.”
Forum: U.S. must provide leadership
■ Continued from Page 1
territory and had pro* burned their own Serbian
Republic of Bosnia-Hentegov in.i
One International proposal for a t ease fire
involved dividing the country into JO semiau
tonomou* regions, in each of which one of the
contending ethnic tehgions groups would domi
nate
"Yet, multi (ethnic! accommodation is the tra
dition of Hosnia-Her/egovina. and Western gov
ernment has faded to see this." Yasui said
■'This war was not started from ancient hatred or
spontaneous fighting," he said, "it was a well
thought-out war by the Serbian president and
intellectuals "
If the United States doesn't take leadership as a
multi-ethnic state, (hen (lie Europeans won't fol
low ho said "This was proved by the Gulf War "
"And just because Bosnia doesn't have oil. wo re
not involved," he said, "Wo have to ask our gov
emment for moral leadership and to stop the c.ost
Ixoiefit analysis "
trt*orge Zaninovich a University political sci
f!H o !eii< her, asked, "Why haven't the Serbs in the
United States spoken out against the war?"
A member of the audience. Midhut l)elii. a
University student who < arne from Bosnia four
months ago, answered, "Of everyone who is
opposed to the war, none of those are ready to
give up what the Bosnian Serbs have gotten In
forte in Bosnia — none of them is ready to give
Up the territory '"
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